''Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday attacked media reports that the central bank lent more than $7.7 trillion to banks during the height of the financial crisis, telling Congress in a letter that the figure is “wildly inaccurate” and that recent coverage “contained a variety of egregious errors and mistakes.”
Outstanding credit provided by the Fed never went above $1.5 trillion, Bernanke wrote to the leaders of the House Financial Service and Senate Banking committees".......READ MORE
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